The Intelligent Broadband Network [1] enables efficient provision of advanced multimedia services to users, exploiting the benefits given by ATM technology and hiding the limitations of current signalling systems to IN service designers. The availability of new technologies like DOT (Distributed Object Technology) and MAT (Mobile Agent Technology) opens new horizons within the framework of Inte...

background: in this study we evaluated the prognostic impact of metastatic lymph node ratio (mlr) in patients with gastric cancer undergoing curative surgical resection. methods: a total of 121 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma undergoing curative r0 surgical resection in our institutions between 2003 and 2010 were included in this study.  mlr was classified into 3 groups as follows: mlr0; 0...

South Asian labor market has undergone changes brought in by the forces of liberalization. Liberal free trade has changed the structure of industrial priority from import competing to export industries. This has implied fragmentation and relocation of industries in the value added chains. Production has been stretched across the globe and unskilled labor and skilled labor are being thrown to fo...

Manufacturing innovations are technologies and activities that improve and change the level of capacity, performance and quality in manufacturing permanently or over time. This policy brief explores the role of manufacturing innovations in different Nordic contexts, their link with production relocation decisions and performance implications. Manufacturing innovations are analyzed in terms of f...

Intermittent search processes switch between local Brownian search events and ballistic relocation phases. We demonstrate analytically and numerically in one dimension that when relocation times are Lévy distributed, resulting in a Lévy walk dynamics, the search process significantly outperforms the previously investigated case of exponentially distributed relocation times: The resulting Lévy w...

Gene relocation from the residual genomes of organelles to the nuclear genome still continues, although as a scaled down evolutionary phenomenon, limited in occurrence mostly to protists (sensu lato) and land plants. During this process, the structural integrity of transferred genes is usually preserved. However, the relocation of mitochondrial genes that code for respiratory chain and ribosoma...

UNLABELLED Hospital relocation is a highly complex undertaking, which has the potential to interrupt operations and poses risks for patients, staff, and providers. Little is known how hospital relocation impacts on workflow and communication. METHODS Using existing Electronic Health Record (EHR) data we determined time from medication ordering to first dose administration as a proxy for well-...

Disaster recovery after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 led to a number of challenges and raised issues concerning land rights and housing reconstruction in the affected countries. This paper discusses the resistance to relocation of fishing communities in Chennai, India. Qualitative research methods were used to describe complexities in the debate between the state and the community regarding...

This manuscript seeks to test a comprehensive model of job relocation decisions by conducting two independent but complementary investigations. The first study, using qualitative methods, inductively determined the key situational antecedents to job relocation decisions. The sample included 60 managers and executives from two U.S. multi-site service organizations. Results suggested that five si...

The WiMAX Forum has defined a two-tiered mobility management to minimize handover delay and packet loss. However, it leads to another problem: When to perform ASN GW relocation? The standards only define the ASN GW relocation procedures without specifying when the ASN GW relocation should be performed. It is left for vendors and operators to develop their own proprietary solutions. In this pape...